Job hunting over 50 feels like standing outside an exclusive club while an AI bouncer scans your résumé and silently shakes its head. Too old. Too experienced. Too expensive. After re-entering your CV for the hundredth time and collecting Workday accounts like Pokémon, the silence becomes personal. Is it AI? Is it ageism? Is there a blacklist? A cynical look at modern hiring, ghosting, and waiting to be let back in.